She was descended from a founding general, yet the twists of fate brought her into the palace registers. Little known and overlooked, she was eventually sent to the Eastern Palace to assist the Crown Prince's reader. After witnessing the deep, unforgettable love he had once shared with another, she finally entered his sight and then his heart, finding a love in which they could rely on each other and devote their lives to one another.
He was a peerless beauty who had set the capital abuzz, and the heir to the realm, destined to shoulder the sun and moon. His lingering attachment to an old love left him sick with drink and sorrow, until at last he met her: the graceful and wise woman who adored him wholeheartedly, loved him faithfully, and warmed him with her gaze.
This is a mermaid's tear of pearl, lost amid the vast sea of time, and an old tale from a painted hall, buried beneath the dust of forgotten pages.
